Fashion speak that annoys you?

[Britpopbaby]

Obsessed as I am obsessed with this top.
Cute to describe nearly everything.

Yes those colour people! I often disagree with their matches and they themselves wear terrible outfits and it costs like £150! Wtf.

A clunky boot
A chunky knit

I see vegan leather mentioned above. I hate it. Stop flogging me plastic handbags with a big VEGAN label. Are people that daft? Oh must be good, it's vegan...

'Price point'
'Colourway'
'Paired with'
'Crisp' as in white shirt. Always a white shirt.

And yes to anything singular.

When an influencer tucks in their top, puts their coat on, picks up their bag and calls it "styling"

Thing is, they always go too far.

They get dressed I think 'that's a nice outfit' then they add four bangles, a scarf straight from 2010, and a greatcoat like you'd have worn in the trenches.

And they're 23. And manage to look at least double their age.

Any item or style described as witty. I have yet to hear any wisecracks from a garment.

Dupe. (1) not a proper word and are you really too exhausted to utter two more syllables. And (2) Erm, no it's not a dupLICATE. That would be something identical. It's a cheap inferior copy.

Edgy - on what seems like most S&B threads you’ll get one person who proclaims their style is edgy, but can’t give an example of edgy that doesn’t look like a lot of high street stuff

Pleather ..... Thats plastic then

Oh and 'put together'. I'm not a sodding Mrs Potato Head.

Last para is bang on!! I remember seeing something on one of those weary millennial accounts saying something like my teen years of reading More/Glamour etc led me to believe that desk to dinner dressing would be a much more key part of my life. So true!

I agree except for ‘cheap’. A friends daughter was showing off her ‘dupe Dior’ which had only cost her £500! For a ‘cheap’ fake. Fools and their money …..

Have we had Statement Bag yet?

Apparently you can get statement nappy bags also.. I just shoved some baby stuff in any old bag and stuffed it in the buggy tray

"Accent colour"
I don't mind the concept of an accent colour, but so many content creators seem to think that adding a random pink/red/orange item to an otherwise harmonious outfit is a pop of colour/using your accent colour.

"Wearing Vs styling" content annoys me. Well done, you've realised that the same basic outfit looks different if you wear sneakers and a leather jacket Vs smart shoes and a coat, or you've noticed that you can tuck your shirt in. 🙄

Any grown adult who describes their clothes as “cute” 🤮 I have a friend who does this, she is fifty for fuck’s sake, we grew out of cute 40 years ago.

And a red lip - if you only have one then surely you’ve had some sort of nasty accident?

I know, drives me mad.
I quite like Trinny, but she does this all the time

The singular gets used frequently on here.

Adore, to describe clothing, it's so OTT.

Cheering is annoying.

Curated

The fashion singular (a shoe, a jean)

Off duty

Not exactly speak but when a poster says their budget is £50 and the next ten posters share links for items of a ridiculous price, £200+ and say it's an investment.

Also not s&b but in a similar vein, 'a glass of bubbly on arrival' makes my toes curl.

In fact, anything 'on arrival' - canapés, champagne etc 😖

Gorgeous and stunning

Agree with everybody above. I think when I read “a trouser” “a lip” etc for the first time, it was fine because it was a new way of trying to express the same old same old subject matter in a new way. And sometimes being ungrammatical see what I did there 🤡 is quite a powerful means of grabbing attention. But when all these words or phrases get adopted and are repeated endlessly it’s infuriating - especially because nobody seems to use, for example, “a pair of trousers” nowadays, “a trouser” is so widely used it’s almost the standard term. I wonder if it’s a bit like normal slang, ie it starts off in a small initiated group, escapes from there into the mainstream and is used to the point of cliche… until a new terminology is invented and off we go again.

not sure if I’m making myself clear because although these terms could be irritating it’s their ubiquity that I find so annoying, and the fact that they are squeezing out plain normal-speak IYSWIM. But it is also true that language is constantly evolving.

Ps I’d add “a tad” to the list of irritating terms

Deliberately weird word juxtapositions from bored fashion editors - 'faux pony boho' kind of thing.